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The Vaisnava Literature of Mediaeval Bengal

1913

The Theism of Bengal has for the most part found its inspiration in the mystic tiacine of the desire of the human soul to commune with the Divine Essence, personified in the divine hero Krishr. ta, regarded as an Incarnation of Vishnu. [...] The conferring of the title of 4. Abhinava Jayadeva',' a new Jayadeva, on Vidvapati by Civa Simha, the King of proves that the spirit of the r. reat lyric- master of Bengal inspired the poet-laureate of the Maithil court. [...] 3 of the 11th century' ; tliough Sir George Grierson accepts, without adducing any evidence, or entering into controversy, the tradition of Mithila and takes the poet to be a contetnporary of Vidyipati. 1 The origin of the Maithil tradition is to be traced chiefly to a few couplets in which the names of both the poets appear together in the colophon. [...] Whether the Umapati of these songs is the same poet whom we find mentioned in 'the Songs Celestial' of Jaydeva or not, it is certain that the capitals of some of the Maithil kings of old had poets who, following the tradition of the court of Laktimana Sen, sang of Radha-lima-love after Jayadeva. [...] The perfect imagev of Vidynpati, of which it will be difficult to find" the equal in the lyrical literature of Bengal, is due to the influence of the scholarly atmosphere of tee Maithil court poetry; whereas the songs of the Vaitinava poets of Bengal voice the mystic yearnings of the soul for its beloved not always in the high strained dletaghorical lailguage of the Maithil.
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Pages
295
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100014
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xxxi Dinesh Sen view
Chapter I
1-82 unknown view
Chapter II
83-182 unknown view
Chapter III
183-218 unknown view
Chapter IV
219-248 unknown view
Index
249-257 unknown view
Opinions Onrai Sahib Dinesh Chandra Sen’s “History of the Bengali Language Andliterature” (in English)
i-vii unknown view

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